I could write a book about the things I really despise about myself, but one of those things is NEEDINESS. Does anyone else feel this way, and do you feel you have lost people in your life because of it? I do. And I still worry about it, if I have a good thing going, being afraid I'll do something to screw it up. I've lost my fair share of people in my life. And I always felt like it was because I felt a bit too clingy with them, and it's not that they pushed me away, but I'd eventually push them away, because the neediness hurt too much. It started a lifetime ago when I was in school...I would attach myself to teachers and other maternal figures, just to feel I was probably driving them nuts, so I'd push them away before they had the opportunity to do the same to me. Depression and former trauma in a person's life can sure make for a lonely existence....